Trading with tick chart on MT4

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Does anyone have feedback on trading or placing trades using MT4 tick charts? I have developed an MT5 tick chart EA that works excellently for data reception on US_500. However, placing trades has been a nightmare; it simply doesn’t function as expected. It’s difficult to justify allocating funds when there are ongoing concerns about these complications. Would it be worthwhile to convert my MT5 EA to an MT4 version? I am not interested in historical data; just daily data is sufficient. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
  1. Trader_TSS: Does anyone have feedback on trading or placing trades using MT4 tick charts?

    Do you have a offline tick chart generator (compatible with build 600+ data structure)?

  2. Trader_TSS:I have developed an MT5 tick chart EA that works excellently for data reception on US_500.

    Irrelevant, MT4 is different.

  3. Trader_TSS: However, placing trades has been a nightmare; it simply doesn’t function as expected. It’s difficult to justify allocating funds when there are ongoing concerns about these complications.

    Fix your broken code. Hire someone.

  4. Trader_TSS: Would it be worthwhile to convert my MT5 EA to an MT4 version?

    Translated broken code is still broken.

  5. Trader_TSS:  I am not interested in historical data; just daily data is sufficient

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  6. Trader_TSS: Any help would be greatly appreciated.
    Help you with what?
 
Fix your broken code. Hire someone.
I did not develop this tick chart EA by myself; I had a developer. My custom-made ''Trading Button'' works great on all standard timeframes, except the tick chart is the cause for my question. He stated that I need to use larger inputs for SL/TP, then on 1, 5min... How can that be? However, since MT5 has a bug, which has been known to developers for a long time by freezing charts... I would like to know if MT4 is a solution to the problem. 

Help you with what?
I would like to know if anyone has experience placing trades from the tick charts on MT4.  
 
Trader_TSS #:
Fix your broken code. Hire someone.
I did not develop this tick chart EA by myself; I had a developer. My custom-made ''Trading Button'' works great on all standard timeframes, except the tick chart is the cause for my question. He stated that I need to use larger inputs for SL/TP, then on 1, 5min... How can that be? However, since MT5 has a bug, which has been known to developers for a long time by freezing charts... I would like to know if MT4 is a solution to the problem. 

Help you with what?
I would like to know if anyone has experience placing trades from the tick charts on MT4.  

What is freezing the charts is your code. And if you cannot use small stops (S/L, T/P), then that is because of your broker's "Stops Level" limitations, not because of MT5.

In summary, the problem is your own EA that needs to be fixed. It will not help to downgrade to MT4. That will probably be worse, since MT4 has less tick data support than MT5.

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